Dark Winds Rising

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Mark Noce returns to Medieval Wales with his second book about the Braveheart-like Queen Branwen in this epic historical series.Three years after uniting the Welsh to defeat the Saxons and settling down with her true love, Artagan, Queen Branwen finds her world once again turned upside down as Pictish raiders harry the shores of her kingdom. Rallying her people once more, she must face her most dangerous foe yet, the Queen of the Picts. Ruthless and cunning, the Pictish Queen turns the Welsh against each other in a bloody civil war.All the while Branwen is heavy with child, and finds her young son's footsteps dogged by a mysterious assassin who eerily resembles her dead first husband, the Hammer King. In the murky world of courtly intrigue, Queen Branwen must continually discern friend from foe at her own peril in the ever-shifting alliances of the independent Welsh kingdoms.Branwen must somehow defeat the Picts and save her people before the Pictish Queen...